The Huguenots and French opinion, 1685-1787 : the Enlightenment debate on toleration / Geoffrey Adams.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Adams, Geoffrey, 1926-2012.

Contributor:

Canadian Corporation for Studies in Religion.

Series:

Editions SR ; v. 12.

Editions SR ; v. 12

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Huguenots--France--History.

Huguenots.

Religious tolerance--France--History--18th century.

Religious tolerance.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (353 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Waterloo, Ont. : Published for the Canadian Corporation for Studies in Religion/Corporation Canadienne des Sciences Religieuses by Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 1991.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The decision of Louis XIV to revoke the Edict of Nantes and thus liquidate French Calvinism was well received in the intellectual community which was deeply prejudiced against the Huguenots. This antipathy would gradually disappear. After the death of the Sun King, a more sympathetic view of the Protestant minority was presented to French readers by leading thinkers such as Montesquieu, the abbé Prévost, and Voltaire. By the middle years of the eighteenth century, liberal clerics, lawyers, and government ministers joined Encyclopedists in urging the emancipation of the Reformed who were

Contents:

CONTENTS; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgements; Introduction; I. The Edict of Fontainebleau: The Rationalization of Intolerance; II. Thunderous Applause, Discreet Dissent: The Intellectual Reaction to the Revocation; III. A Three-way Impasse: The Huguenots, The Clergy and the State; IV. An Abstract Combat: Voltaire's First Battles Against Intolerance, 1713-1750; V. Montesquieu and the Huguenots: A Conservative's View of Minority Rights; VI. A Friend in the Enemy Camp: The Abbe Prevost; VII. Controller-General Machault Provokes a Public Debate on Huguenot Rights, 1751-1760

VIII. Encyclopedists and Calvinists: An Exercise in Mutual Aid IX. A Case Study in Incompatibility: The Philosophe Voltaire and the Calvinist La Beaumelle, 1750-1756; X. Mutual Disenchantment: Voltaire and the Genevans, 1755-1762; XI. Distant Cousins: Rousseau and the French Calvinists; XII. The Stage in the Service of Huguenot Emancipation: Voltaire, Fenouillot de Falbaire, and Mercier; XIII. Reaction Put to Rout: The Dictionnaire Philosophique, the Last of the Encyclopedie and the Belisaire Affair. 1764-1767; XIV. The 1760's: From Words to Deeds

XV. The Calas Affair: A Catalyst for the National Conscience, 1762-1765 XVI. Large Expectations, Limited Gains: The Reform Efforts of Turgot and Malesherbes, 1774-1776; XVII. Conservatives and Pragmatists Try Their Hand: Necker, Armand, and the Parlementaires, 1776-1784; XVIII. Genteel Conspirators: Breteuil and Malesherbes Set the Stage for Reform, 1784-1787; XIX. Spurs to Action: The D' Anglure Affair and the Dutch Crisis, 1787; XX. Toleration Triumphant: The Edict of 1787; Epilogue; Selected Bibliography; Index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 311-330) and index.

Description based upon print version of record.

ISBN:

9780889209046

0889209049

OCLC:

753479446